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e days first i went to visit my friend barb fun with barb in connecticut and we went to the aqs show in hartford barb was a fabulous hostess i had so much fun i kept forgetting to take pictures we were lucky enough to meet up with our friends laurie and gladi gladi quilts for lunch this was one of my favorite quilts just so much fun this is mary pat leger who organized an amazing display of 52 quilts from 42 different quilters that formed the farmington river it was truly fabulous none of my photos did it justice but you can visit their website farmington river watershed association and don t you just love her outfit the next day we went to mystic seaport and saw a few textiles there as well it was really a very special trip the following week was my annual seven sistahs retreat we did things a little differently this year instead of renting our usual house on the beach we joined a larger group in portsmouth nh that was organized by ruth clay she did a great job and we really had a ball we had our own corner of the room but we did a lot of visiting and met some great quilters i took a photo for the carpet for a possible applique project and when we got tired of stitching kathy had fun taking our photos and using her new app made fantasy photos of all of us i asked for me riding a fresian horse and this is what i got too funny i m sure the horse had as much fun as we all did i finished both my march and april round robin projects first was ann s which was already pretty large when it came to me so all i did was applique a few little scallop shells in the corner ann plans to donate it to hospice when finished so i think we don t want to make it too big april was a bit more challenging jennifer had started with this incredible paper pieced center and we were all a bit intimidated since it was wider than it was tall when i received it i decided to just add a little applique that might be appropriate for pocahontas and then added the border at the top and bottom to even out the size we will be revealing all of them at this month s meeting and i can t wait to see how they all turned out quite frankly i can t even remember what i sent in to start with and today i am gathering up a few little quilts for the silent auction at maine quilts 2026 proceeds this year go to the maine coalition to end domestic violence hope you can make to the show july 23 25 at the augusta civic center hope you all have a happy may day posted by wendy caton reed at 8 54 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday march 26 2026 march madness i don t follow basketball but there is a lot of madness happening in my sewing room for years i carried a box full of hexies wherever i went i would work on them whenever i had a free moment lull in conversation boring movie extra long traffic light when i get enough together i make something so early this month i counted them up and decided that i had enough to start something new i took 134 of them and appliqued them to a 5 square then i took my little worn out 6 ruler and taped a hexie cutout to it for accuracy of layout and trimmed them down to 4 1 2 this is what i came up with not sure where that center panel came from but needless to say it has been lying around for quite a while there only a few repeat fabrics just enough to make it fun for the kids to find them so there are well over 300 different fabrics in this one you will never get bored with this one on your lap earlier in the month my seven sistahs group got together at fotini s to make fidget quilts for the local hospital for their alzheimer s patients they were such fun to make charlotte s idea of just stitching an old pair of jeans with pockets to a background was sensational and i m plodding along in this year s sewalong fancyfourpatchchallenge with taryn falkner on instagram reproquiltlover i ve chosen to make mine with c1890 repros that i call neons lovely black backgrounds with wild neon colors i also finished my part of the second round robin in my kaleidoscope group this was what i received and this was my contribution that s enough madness for one month i ve been working on a few other things too but can t seem to catch up on proper photos crocuses are peeping through the snow so i hope to have more to share when the tulips begin to appear happy spring posted by wendy caton reed at 8 09 am 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday february 22 2026 2026 finishes thus far winter is always a productive season for me all that beautiful snow really inspires me my second finish thus far was this sweet little doll quilt for linda collin s quilts in the barn annual swap since it has been received by her new owner i can tell you that it traveled all the way to the uk i was delighted to be a part of this fun swap again this year you can go to quiltsinthebarn on instagram and check out all the very sweet and oh so creative little treasures next up was made in an effort to use up some of my strips once again instead of depleting the basket of scraps they seemed to multiply it was a quick effort though and those center crazy blocks were really fun to play with and once again because i made it in the potholder method the back was as much fun as the front i had intended to donate it to the infusion center but i got carried away and it is really too large for the chairs so i will just have to keep it my neighbor s grandson is expecting a baby next month so i whipped up this little cutie it is very similar to the one i made for him as a baby over 20 years ago they both love animals so i had to use the pokey little puppy in the center i joined in the fun of the round robin at my local kaleidoscope group this is my first one i just received the second one so hopefully i will post that next month block number one and here is my border i have a few other irons in the fire but as usual i m behind on my photography hope you all enjoyed the winter olympics stay warm and healthy my friends posted by wendy caton reed at 9 04 am 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday january 18 2026 welcome new year let s spread some joy my first finish of the year is my liberty bird sew a long 2025 with barbara brackman on her civil war blog although it is done in the potholder method this one is a bit different in that i chose the same fabrics for the back of each block it was due to pure laziness on my part at the time i quilted my first block i just didn t have the gumption to pick different fabrics for each one i plan to donate this to the auction at the american quilts study group aqsg at the end of the summer barbara and i are both long term members of aqsg so the combination of her design and my assembly usually brings a good amount for the coffers thanks barbara for another great sew a long since it is my first finish for 2026 i ve decided to call it love thy neighbor this quote has meant more to me in the past year than any other i also finished this top last week a few year ago i bought a table cover at my favorite junk store with 4 of these fabulous fruit bouquets on it the label on the back said made in czechoslovakia and i m guessing it is from around 1890 i auditioned a few fabrics for the setting fabric and decided on the neutral i decided to keep the quilt simple the inner border was from a fabric that my friend karen had given me then i just pulled colors from the bouquet and made a simple squares border i liked it more than i thought so it is now in the hand quilting queue it will likely be my first finish of 2027 last weekend our kaleidoscope quilt group had a quiltathon dedicated to making quilts for veterans i finished this little top but decided it might be too small so i m going to dd a border of this cadet blue i rarely get much done at our quiltathons too much yacking and eating but i was determined to finish this one and get it out to one of our quilting angels in this time of global unrest i am determined to live love and give locally i will continue to spread joy and happiness to all that i can i hope you have something delightful to work on in these wintery months too posted by wendy caton reed at 11 14 am 19 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday december 27 2025 farewell 2025 i m not making a new year s resolution this year but i do hope to try to get back into blogging i ll start by catching up since my last post in august some time in mid summer i started this triple irish chain which was inspired by a number of quilts that diedre of hat creek quilts had made it is still just a top i did a lot playing with my feedsack scraps this summer and made a few little quilts for next year s silent auction at our state show i love throwing these happy little prints around i call this one village people this one was done in the potholder method i simply stitched the feedsack strips down by machine and then hand appliqued the squiggle in the center i call it ribbon candy in october i attended the american quilt study group annual seminar in portland maine barb vedder and i worked at the silent auction for most of the week but we did manage to meet new friends and greet old ones barb participated in this year s study quilt whereby you pick a vintage quilt and make a smaller version of your own interpretation this year s theme was quilt designers of the 20th century i was so honored that she chose my grapes of bath quilt to replicate although i made this particular quilt in 2012 i was designing quilts as early as 1965 i was even more blow away when she told me that she intended to give me her quilt as soon as it returns from the photographer i just could not believe my fortune her quilt is stunning here it it in our hotel room lying on top my original we surely did have fun later in october i had a visit from my friend linda collins quilts in the barn all the way from australia oh what fun we had we tried to squeeze as much into 5 days as we could we attended the cocheco quilt show in rochester nh we hiked on some of our local woods trails we went to my monthly quilt study group meeting and one of the greatest things about linda s visit is that she likes to cook and she is excellent at it and to top it all off she made me this adorable little quilt can t have a better guest than that my latest quilt was also made from vintage feedsacks i had been playing around with some solid green fabrics that needed to be used up this is what i came up with thanks to my friend barb i am calling it mixed greens and last but not least i am working diligently on barbara brackman s civil war blog liberty birds i m hoping to have the borders done by next week so i can assemble everything in january as usual no promises i hope you all enjoy a happy new year with lots of quilting posted by wendy caton reed at 11 47 am 11 comments email this blogthis share to x 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